---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Ashworth <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:33 PM Subject: [sudan-john-ashworth] Senior South Sudanese Catholic Priest Expelled from Sudan To: Group <[email protected]>
Senior Catholic Priest Expelled as Bashir Visits Juba KHARTOUM, April 12, 2013 (Catholic Information Service for Africa) -Sudan’s security services expelled a South Sudanese senior catholic priest together with other expatriate religious personnel the same day the Sudanese president made his first official visit to Juba. Rev Fr Santino Morokomomo Maurino, the secretary-general of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Khartoum, arrived on Friday April 12 in Juba after being deported by the security services for undisclosed reasons. Fr Maurino told CRN that he was called to National Intelligence and Security Services headquarters where he was briefly detained and given three days to buy an air ticket and leave the country for no reason and without a chance to defend himself. He said he was expelled together with two foreign religious brothers who were living at Catholic Language Institute-Khartoum, CLIK. Their activities were under the surveillance of the secret services. The two expatriate missionaries expelled together with Fr Maurino were Frenchman Michel Fleury and Egyptian Brother Hossam from De la Salle Brothers. Both were working with children in Khartoum. Fr Maurino arrived at Juba International Airport, ahead of President Omar Al Bashir of Sudan on his first official visit to South Sudan. Fr Maurino said he did not trust that Khartoum would implement the Four Freedoms Agreement allowing South Sudanese to live, work, own property and engage in business in South Sudan. He said Christians were in trouble in the Sudan. Fr Maurino denounced that Christians are being persecuted because the regime wants to islamize the country and eliminate the Christian presence. Meanwhile, the Presidents of South Sudan and Sudan on Friday pledged commitment to implement the Cooperation Agreements signed on September 27 last year and strengthen relations between the two countries. President Salva Kiir and his counterpart Omar al Bashir presided over a joint meeting and issued a communiqué reiterating both countries commitments to implement the Cooperation Agreements with honesty and to the letter. The two presidents agreed to form a joint ministerial committee headed by the two vice presidents to speed decision making and promote better relationships between Sudan and South Sudan. President Salva Kiir and President Omar Al Bashir said they were happy with the progress in the implementation of the matrix on security, oil and banking. END ______________________ John Ashworth Sudan, South Sudan Advisor [email protected] +254 725 926 297 (Kenya mobile) +211 919 695 362 (South Sudan mobile) +27 82 050 1235 (South Africa mobile) +44 750 304 1790 (UK/international) +88 216 4334 0735 (Thuraya satphone) PO Box 52002 - 00200, Nairobi, Kenya This is a personal e-mail address and the contents do not necessarily reflect the views of any organisation -- -- The content of this message does not necessarily reflect John Ashworth's views. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, John Ashworth is not the author of the content and the source is always cited. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sudan-john-ashworth" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.za/group/sudan-john-ashworth --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sudan-john-ashworth" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
